Years Ago

Today is Thursday, July 7, the 188th day of 2011. There are 177 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1846: U.S. annexation of California is proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.

1865: Four people are hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

1911: Composer Gian Carlo Menotti is born in Cadegliano, Italy.

1930: Construction begins on Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam).

1981: President Ronald Reagan announces he is nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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1986: June was the wettest month in Youngstown at the Youngstown Municipal Airport since the weather service opened in 1943, with 10.66 inches of rain registered.

The Trumbull County Fair breaks attendance records with 64,957 in paid attendance.

1971: A half-million dollar fire destroys the Beauty Mart at 1315 Market Street and firemen rescue an 80-year-old man and three others from adjacent apartments. City Arson Investigator Joseph Cestone says the fire was definitely set by a professional.

The Ohio Board of Tax Appeals orders distribution of $2.5 million in 1970 local government funds to 28 Mahoning County political subdivision, with more than $1 million going to Youngstown.

1961: Atty. Daniel L. Rossi is appointed Mahoning County administrator to succeed Jack W. Nybell.

Donald Lieppley, 14, puts his Boy Scout first aid training into practise, reviving his 43-year-old father, Glen, who suffered a heart attack.

Three people die and a boy is badly burned in a fiery crash between a truck and a New York car on the Ohio Turnpike near Streetsboro. The man and woman in the Cadillac that was crushed by the truck were killed and a boy injured. The truck driver also died.

1936: An extra crew of traffic policemen hits the downtown streets at 6 a.m. to avoid traffic jams caused by road closings due to the Wick Avenue grade elimination project.

Dayton H. Frost, Ohio FERA administrator, says Mahoning County spent $6.6 million in 1934 and 1935 on work and direct relief funds with much of the money coming from the WPA..

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. has 19 of its 24 open hearths in operation, the highest number since 1929.